Tickets for RR2010 on Sale

Tickets for our largest, annual fundraiser are going like hotcakes! Today, there are only 10 seats left and about 80 tickets for standing!

Redress Raleigh 2010 will be held on Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 7PM until 9PM at the Flander’s Art Gallery, 302 South West Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27603.

Come join us as 15 local designers present their lines and raise the limits of eco-design as well as funds for extraordinary causes.

Screening for RR09

Citizen Act

A good friend of ours, Jenn Halweil, along with two colleagues, Yusuf Simonson and Holly Hardison, are participating in a competition, Citizen Act, to create a bank that will benefit strong and powerful women. The name of their team is Contribution Globale.

Their mission is to empower female entrepreneurs to build strong businesses, strengthen family ties, and cultivate sustainable communities. Their idea, RoseLeaf, is a social network and banking initiative to foster mentorship, encourage collaboration and develop a variety of tools to address the particular concerns of female leaders. Both oppressed women in need of empowerment and strong women who inspire will benefit from Citizen Act.

The following is a message from Contribution Globale:

“Our team, Contribution Globale, is taking part in an international business competition know as Citizen Act. We are competing for the opportunity to make our vision of the socially conscious bank of the future a reality. Hosted by Société Générale, a banking network headquartered in Paris, France, whose focus is on promoting Corporate Social Responsibility, this Wiki-Blog is designed to demonstrate our idea, known as RoseLeaf, and receive feedback from people like you world-wide. We encourage you to comment, suggest ideas, and ask questions, so that we may work together to build the bank of tomorrow!”

Design Revolution Road Show @ NCSU

If you are in the NCSU/Triangle area this Tuesday, stop by the College of Design and see the people of Design Revolution Road Show:

“The Design Revolution Road Show is a traveling exhibition and lecture series bringing “product design that empowers” to 35 high schools and university design programs across the nation in the Spring of 2010. AProject H Design initiative, the road show will feature an Airstream trailer exhibition of 40 humanitarian design solutions that have been showcased in the book Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People.

The programming will bring the evidence of and tools for design for social impact to the doorsteps of students, with the ultimate goal of enabling and empowering the next generation of creative problem-solvers to apply their skills to the world’s most pressing problems and improve life on a global scale.”

This is a great way to learn how design can make a difference in a life and eventually change the way our world evolves.

Update on Haiti

From Philip and Sara Dail, owners of Beleza:

We are still receiving support from our customers for the Haiti outreach.  We still have a definite need for vitamins, especially chewable forms, pain medications such as Tylenol or Ibuprofen (not aspirin), skin rash ointments especially those with hydro-cortisone, and benadryl tablets. Please remember that donations are eligible for tax credit through Together We Can, Inc.  All donations for Haiti received by the end of February can still be used on your 2009 tax returns.

We need these by March 15 since the medical team that Philip is taking to Haiti is leaving March 20.  This team has already purchased all medications that are not over-the-counter and so this help would be great!  Just drop this by the store.

MERCI in Goldsboro is still shipping items and will be for a long time.  You can see their list of items here.  MERCI You can continue to bring these items to Beleza.

Monday morning Philip met with a woman who had just returned from three weeks of helping set up temporary clinics in Haiti.  She told him about a woman who walked in with her lower arm wrapped in dirty strips of cloth.  When asked about her arm, she said it hurt a little.  When the medical personnel looked at her arm, they saw mostly exposed bone and not much else. She had received no medical attention since the earthquake.  They sent her for an amputation.  How this woman is alive is hard to understand.  This just points to what we all know.  There will be need for caring support in this country for a long time.

Thank you for all your support.
Sara and Philip

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